Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases years ago. I did not wake up one day and decide, “I am going to...
2025-11-28 (first published: 2025-11-10)
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Chris Yates
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change the way developers and DBA’s interact with data. Over the years, we have seen incremental...
2025-11-26 (first published: 2025-11-05)
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Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is critical. That’s why I’ve relied on Redgate Monitor at different points in my career. It...
2025-11-17 (first published: 2025-11-02)
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Leadership in Times of Change: Guiding Teams Through Uncertainty, Disruption, and Transformation
Change is inevitable. What separates thriving organizations from those that falter is not the scale of disruption but how leaders respond to it. In times of shifting technologies, evolving...
2025-11-12 (first published: 2025-10-20)
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Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build pipelines, connect sources to sinks, and hope the pipes do not burst under pressure. That...
2025-11-05 (first published: 2025-10-17)
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Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced platforms and the most ambitious strategies collapse under the weight of doubt. For Chief Data...
2025-10-30
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Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing everything into a single attic. The attic was called the data warehouse, and while it...
2025-10-29 (first published: 2025-10-09)
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Designing for Observability in Fabric Powered Data Ecosystems
In today’s data-driven world, observability is not an optional add-on but a foundational principle. As organizations adopt Microsoft Fabric to unify analytics, the ability to see into the inner...
2025-10-27
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The Feedback Multiplier: How Leaders Can Turn Input into Innovation
In every organization there is a hidden currency more valuable than capital, more enduring than strategy, and more transformative than technology. That currency is feedback. Leaders who learn to...
2025-10-22 (first published: 2025-09-29)
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From Data Custodian to Innovation Catalyst: The Evolving Role of the CDO
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of the enterprise. Their office lights burned late into the night as they combed through spreadsheets...
2025-10-14
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Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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